Designed for Paper 1 short answer sections to help my students revise key theories but in context to help answer the question Theories drawn from the whole 2 years...

works really well.. Starter on what is quality before drawing activity which allows the QC vs QA debate outcomes and notes on theory. plenary often used as lesson before the one on QA systems..

You will need to have two sets of lego to enable tower building for this... please note sample does not show all the pages for the task structured task where students come up with plan and come up with a budget with income, costs and profit targets. Then the do the task and see what actually happens. Then can see variance in action and allows discussion of use, importance. works really really well and students love it. can take more than one lesson with the breakdown done.

Whole lesson as a combined adaptation on other ideas out there.. probably could get 2 (x 1hr) lessons out of this Way of deriving Ansoff's strategy from a scenario Lots of recent strategy stories..can be used for plotting/discussion then explanation of the model and an activity that helps question the idea of risk...traditionally but even in strategies the level of risk differ according to the context/situation .. so it depends on factors.. Another cut out Kineasthetic activity which helps with this... & is better than the stories as saves time and gets them moving things around the matrix..

All activities on powerpoint easily printable Starter on perceived benefits Plotting activity Bowmans theory Then influences on Then judgment helping question

2 or 3 lessons on Porters 5 forces.. why does profitability in industries differ before a focus on competitive rivalry and then an a focus on firms with a judgment activity on if X is in a strong position. then look at other firms in different industries and different contexts and why 5 forces analysis matters before moving onto situations/contexts that change the competitive environment (before moving onto external environment)

Full lesson (or two) on powerpoint focused on Market Segmentation. full of activities and 2ndary market research data that can be printed out and then blown up on A3 sheets - or use the word sheets attached which students can work through & prepare answers to the questions.. Starts off with Kineasthetic move around room starter (not necessarily needed) then looks at data on cinema market - allowing teaching of confidence intervals (new on AQA spec). then there is some data on different cinema - link to mass and niche markets - helps data analysis and discussion of factors that influence demand then decision making activities as a manager based on the data allowing for link to benefits of market research and so then the scientific decision making model if you wish

Experience curve lesson that has flip learning, draws out the theory with a game and then gets students to analyse situations where it could be useful and evaluate the validity of the model.

whole lesson looking at Carillion and why it failed... brief intro to get students understanding the business before an activity where students can analyse data to create an picture of the factors behind the failure of the business. Data includes financial accounts, share prices, missed objectives, bonus culture etc etc.. they can create the picture on flip chart paper. evaluation - was it bound to fail - students invites to present ideas on how they would have run it better..

Full lesson based around a experiment for Quality Assurance making Tea. Works really well once mastered. bellwork about what is quality and how measured for firms before Tea in a cafe and an kineasthetic experiment before breaking it down with the pro's and evals of quality assurance processes then pros of quality before a debate if time and videos if time plenary .

second lesson which moves on from Network diagrams to CPA and Float Analysis. plenty of different data’s and situations to use as activities. couple of exam style questions to get them thinking extension question End assessment exam question from old spec.

whole lesson on Critical Path Analysis with links to Lean Production - works well year after year… fully editable Starter before explaining how to build a network diagram Then business decision making scenario with data notes on use of Network Diagrams and CPA and depends on extension Plenary with data

whole lesson which worked well for my U6 class. linking Takeovers and Mergers, Stakeholder Analysis and the Competition Commission decision on the takeover together... Context: Just Eat and hungry house lots of data on the industry then reasons for the T&M then stakeholder analysis then competition commission decision then an essay for assessment/homework.

Whole lesson missions (not mission statements) as per the new AQA A level specification simple mix and match activity then looking at different missions and why important then discussion & to what extent q's then a flip task

worked well - got them to watch the 30mins panaroma before hand as flip Starts off with different situations and what would you do then do you think this "right" activity then looks at a problem industry (gambling) - lots of data and link to Flip learning video to watch Ends with an essay title to be planned in class and written outside of class.

Powerpoint full of different activities Pictures to ask what does it suggest about culture what culture is Analysis of culture using Model Explaining why different types of cultures matter writing activity Flip activity looking at Culture for a business at Undercover Boss

would you invest in this IPO (snapchat)? - after asking them what information matters.. (could be 2 lessons here) first set of slides is basically building up to an overall q... Structured Activity: Also put onto different sheets of paper and at the end of each ask them would they buy shares/invest in Snapchat if they could.. or could use just as powerpoint slides) . could break up around the class (one per pair get them to read out and discuss why it matters; if they would or would not invest because of X and why) then link this to depends on which type of shareholder you are.. link to Short term and long term investors. then look at why shareholders matter (sports-direct page has them influencing decisions) before leading onto so shareholders are interested in share prices.. so what affects these..(ipo and now share price activity and then famous companies with changing share prices)

All the key models and theories across the A level Business course in AQA with model slides but also activities to apply the models. using for a revision session with mu students during half term

Case- study based lesson focused around the consolidation in the supermarket industry quick starter then look at external and organic growth strategies data about changes in the supermarket industry and how the firm could respond look at the proposed merger with Asda possible impact on stakeholders evaluation on whether the competition and markets authority should allow it.

Management Style: Tannenbaum and Schmidt lesson: planned for Year 1 AQA business spec Scenario opener - asking students to come up with how they would make decisions in 6 x scenarios then link to Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory. Then another scenario to build analysis and eval skills & eval depends on arguments. finally a mix and match activity to develop judgement skills. notes on depends on factors Visual Plenary.